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Political leadership will be critical to overhaul Queensland’s public sector after Coaldrake review
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Queensland’s premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, has enthusiastically welcomed Peter Coaldrake’s review into public sector culture and accountability as “bold”, “comprehensive” and “exactly what I want”. But the hard work...
Cop15: lack of political leadership leaves crucial nature summit ‘in peril’, warn NGOs
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UN biodiversity negotiations have reached crisis point due to a lack of engagement from governments, leading NGOs have warned, three years after experts revealed that Earth’s life-support systems are collapsing. Last ...
Cop15: lack of political leadership leaves crucial nature summit ‘in peril’, warn NGOs
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UN biodiversity negotiations have reached crisis point due to a lack of engagement from governments, leading NGOs have warned, three years after experts revealed that Earth’s life-support systems are collapsing. Last ...
Keir Starmer is too timid just when he needs to show leadership
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Zoe Williams says people are “crying out to hear some real values” from a Labour leader (Opinion, 20 June). She is right, of course, just as the Labour party is wrong when its leaders keep hiding behind the “we can’t ...
Michael Gove rules out running for Tory leadership against Boris Johnson
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Michael Gove has ruled out running against Boris Johnson again as a potential new Conservative party leader, as he admitted making a “mistake” by doing so in 2016. The levelling up secretary said he believed the prime...
NHS bosses fear DHSC will use bullying report to blame leadership
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Bullying, discrimination and shifting the blame when things go wrong are rife in the NHS, a government-commissioned inquiry into health service leadership has found. But NHS England bosses are fearful that Sajid Javid...
From May to Heath: Tories who have faced votes on their leadership
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Confirmation that Boris Johnson will face a vote of no confidence came on Monday morning, but he is not the first Conservative leader to have faced one, or a leadership contest. Here is a roundup of the former party l...
Anthony Albanese talks with Timor-Leste leadership as he flies to Indonesia for official visit
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Anthony Albanese had what officials characterised as a “warm and positive” conversation with Timor-Leste leader José Ramos Horta en route to Jakarta on Sunday. Ramos Horta congratulated Albanese on his recent election...
Democrats: left v leadership battle plays out in US primaries
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Texas officials have still not declared a winner in the state’s 28th congressional district, where incumbent Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar currently leads progressive lawyer Jessica Cisneros by 175 votes out of...
David Littleproud to run against Barnaby Joyce for National party leadership
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David Littleproud will run against Barnaby Joyce for leadership of the National party. The high-profile deputy leader announced on Saturday he’d told Joyce of his decision to nominate. “I also took the opportunity to ...
Anne Webster will stand for Nationals deputy, saying party needs ‘not just Queensland’ leadership
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Mallee MP Anne Webster will run for the deputy leadership of the National party, acknowledging Barnaby Joyce’s “polarising” style and urging the party to back “stable and reasonable” leadership. “I am definitely stick...
The Democratic party needs new, younger leadership before it’s too late
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The population of the United States is much younger than that of most European countries, but its political establishment is much older. The 2020 presidential election was fought between 74-year-old Donald Trump and 7...
Johnson leadership doubts resurface amid report of fresh Partygate fine at event he attended
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Boris Johnson is facing deepening peril over the Partygate scandal after a source said a fine had been issued for a second event attended by the prime minister, while senior Conservatives warned he could face a leader...
The Observer view on Boris Johnson’s untenable leadership
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Last week brought confirmation that Boris Johnson broke laws intended to protect the public during a national emergency. The prime minister and the chancellor are among the group of people who have been fined by the M...
Sunak no longer the Tory antidote to Johnson’s leadership chaos
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Has Rishi Sunak’s week from hell saved his neighbour in No 10? Until recently the chancellor was seen as the safest choice to replace Boris Johnson if MPs decided the prime minister’s position was untenable. The chanc...